India ranks second only to the US in most security threats on cloud, followed by Australia, Cannada and Brazil (according to McCafe Enterprise Advanced Threat Research Report).  Cybersecurity skills demand in the country is slated to grow, reflecting the global trend of an increasing skills gap in cybersecurity and a workforce unable to meet industry demand. The eighth annual cybersecurity survey from reputed global IT association ISACA, unveiled in India today, reveals an increase in cybersecurity hiring and retention challenges in the country.

According to ISACA’s new survey report, State of Cybersecurity 2022: Global Update on Workforce Efforts, Resources and Cyber Operations, sponsored by Looking Glass Cyber Solutions, organisations are struggling more than ever with hiring and retaining qualified cybersecurity professionals and managing skills gaps. This year’s survey results in India depict that 60% of the organisations have unfilled cybersecurity positions and that 42% report their organisation’s cybersecurity team is understaffed. Even more concerning is that 59% believe that less than half of their applicants are well qualified for the position they are applying.

Hiring and retention challenges

As in past years, filling cybersecurity roles and retaining talent continues to be a challenge for many enterprises. Sixty-three percent of global respondents indicate they have unfilled cybersecurity positions and India reflects the same trend with 60% unfilled positions. Sixty-two percent of India-based respondents say it takes three to six months for their organisations to find qualified cybersecurity candidates for open positions, compared to 47% globally. For respondents in India, the top factors hiring managers use to determine whether a candidate is qualified are prior hands-on cybersecurity experience (77%), credentials (45%) and hands-on training (38%). Two in three (65%) respondents report difficulties retaining qualified cybersecurity professionals, a 14 percentage -point increase from 2021. The top reasons that India respondents believe cybersecurity professionals are leaving their jobs include:

1. Poor financial incentives in terms of salary or bonus (51%)
2. Limited promotion and development opportunities (50%)
3. Recruited by other companies (47%) 
4. High work stress levels (38%)
5. Lack of management support (38%)

Skills gaps and mitigation

Respondents from India indicate they are looking for a range of skills in candidates, noting the top skills gaps they see in today’s cybersecurity professionals are soft skills (53%), cloud computing (48%)—a new response option for this question—and security controls implementation (42%). Soft skills is also the second-highest skills gap cited for recent graduates (after security controls), and has seen an 11-percentage-point increase in perception as a skills gap among Indian respondents since 2021.

The top three most required security skills are cloud computing (51%), identity & access management (45%) and data protection (44%). Among the top soft skills deemed important are critical thinking (53%), communication (52%) and problem solving (44%).

Fifty-nine percent of respondents in India believe that less than half of their applicants are well qualified for the position for which they are applying. India-based respondents note that their organisations are undertaking multiple measures to decrease cybersecurity skills gaps such as training to allow non-security staff who are interested to move into security roles (58%), increased use of reskilling programmes (44%), increased usage of consultants and external staff (38%), and increased use of performance-based training (36%).

Speaking at a press briefing to unveil the report, Chris Dimitriadis, ISACA Chief Global Strategy Officer, said, “Challenges in hiring and retaining cybersecurity professionals have impacted organizations around the world for years, and have only become more complex amid the pandemic and larger shifts in the global workforce. ISACA is addressing those challenges globally by building a workforce of digital trust professionals, who have more holistic and correlated views from the adjacent professions of cybersecurity, IT audit, risk, privacy and digital technology governance, while also offering state of the art tools in cyber maturity assessments.”

R.V Raghu, ISACA Ambassador in India and past ISACA board director, added, “A strong cybersecurity workforce with cutting-edge skills is essential in the face of evolving technology and an ever-changing cyber threat landscape to support much needed digital trust. Hands-on training, credentials, networking and sharing best practices through the cybersecurity community globally and in India, including through organisations like ISACA, can help cybersecurity professionals in India not only strengthen their skillsets and keep advancing their careers, but also ensure they are keeping their enterprises protected against the latest cyber threats.”

“It’s important to understand the trends across the community over time as well as how one’s organisation compares. This is necessary information to help advance the field as a whole, and we’re proud to be a part of sharing and disseminating these insights,” says Mary Yang, Chief Marketing Officer at Looking Glass Cyber Solutions. “Looking Glass is thrilled to support the cybersecurity community by partnering with ISACA on this report.”

Threat Landscape

This year, 33% of respondents in India indicate that their organisation is experiencing more cyberattacks compared to a year ago. When asked about their main concerns related to cyberattacks, organisational reputation (86%), data breach concerns (78%) and cyber-attack on supply chain or business disruption (63%) rank top of mind for India-based respondents. They also indicated that the top types of cyber-attacks they experienced in the past year include:

• Advanced persistent threats (18%)
• Ransomware (14%)
• Denial of services (13%)
• Injection flaws (12%)
• Sensitive data exposure (12%)

Despite the threats they face, 79% of respondents in India indicate they are confident in their organisation’s cybersecurity team’s ability to detect and respond to cyber threats.

Cyber maturity

When it comes to cyber risk assessments, 77% of respondents based in India say their organisation currently assesses its cyber maturity. Eighty-six% say their executive leadership team sees value in conducting a cyber risk assessment and 35% say their organisation performs a cyber risk assessment every 1-6 months.  

Cybersecurity Budgets

While 48% of respondents in India opine that their cybersecurity budgets are appropriately funded, 31% perceive their budget is underfunded, compared to 54% globally. Fifty-nine percent of India respondents expect some level of increase in cybersecurity budgets, while only 17% of respondents in India, almost half of the global number of 38%, expect no change in budgets.

The survey features insights from more than 2,000 cybersecurity professionals around the globe, and examines cybersecurity staffing and skills, resources, cyber threats and cybersecurity maturity. A complimentary copy of the State of Cybersecurity 2022 survey report can be accessed at www.isaca.org/state-of-cybersecurity-2022, along with related resources. Additional cybersecurity resources can be found at www.isaca.org/resources/cybersecurity.

About ISACA: For more than 50 years, ISACA® (www.isaca.org) has advanced the best talent, expertise and learning in technology. ISACA equips individuals with knowledge, credentials, education and community to progress their careers and transform their organizations, and enables enterprises to train and build quality teams. ISACA is a global professional association and learning organization that leverages the expertise of its more than 150,000 members who work in information security, governance, assurance, risk and privacy to drive innovation through technology. It has a presence in 188 countries, including more than 220 chapters worldwide. In 2020, ISACA launched one in Tech, a philanthropic foundation that supports IT education and career pathways for under-resourced, under-represented populations. To know more: https://www.isaca.org

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Strobes Security today announced the strategic partnership with TechStar Group, a global digital solutions and professional services firm that empowers companies to complete by leveraging emerging technologies. TechStar Group has helped Fortune 500 companies with their digital transformation.

The Strobes Security and TechStar Group partnership is a perfect marriage enabling TechStar to deliver their offerings in a more secure manner using Strobes Security products: Strobes VM365, Strobes DevSecOps and Strobes Penetration Testing as a Service (PTaaS).

TechStar Group has been catering to companies to help deliver their digital transformation for years. As far as emerging technologies, Strobes is well positioned to meet the needs of Enterprise and SMB customers who are struggling with vulnerability management.

“Strobes offerings are not like the rest in the vulnerability management space,” said Ashok Chitiprolu, Co-founder and Managing Partner at TechStar Group. “There is true ROI when it comes to time, money and resource savings. One of our favorite aspects of the platform are the dashboards and reports. My team no longer needs to spend hours helping our customers generate reports from Excel, which is welcome!”

Strobes CEO Venu Rao is pleased with TechStar’s overall approach to customers and the alignment the two organizations share. “TechStar, like Strobes, is customer first,” shared Rao. “It’s important to us to share the same values and approach to customers since they are the most important aspect of our businesses. TechStar became who they are because of this and we relish in sharing similar attitudes. I’m looking forward to doing great things together.”

TechStar will soon begin adding Strobes Security products to its offerings for existing customers.

About TechStar:
TechStar Group is a niche Product Development, Business Solutions, and global IT Services firm headquartered in Dallas, TX. TechStar helps drive Customer Success by leveraging expertise in Applied AI, Automation, Data Engineering, Digital Infrastructure and BPM Solutions.

About Strobes:
Strobes Security develops products and solutions for all organizations to solve challenges in the vulnerability management space using security automation and predictive prioritization. The current product offerings include Strobes VM365 and Strobes DevSecOps. Additional services are available including Strobes PTaaS (Pen Testing as a Service). https://www.strobes.co/

Woodbridge, NJ: Dedicated trainers affiliated with MRCPRNJ are offering to teach first aid and CPR training to the public to give them a better chance of saving one's life.

Mark Cohen, President of MRCPRNJ and his staff, are utterly dedicated to teaching CPR within the guidelines of the American Heart Association. They teach classes to staff at hospitals, private offices, healthcare agencies, and home care facilities.

MRCPRNJ instructors have been providing training to everyday people concerned about being prepared in case of an emergency. They will also travel to offices across New Jersey, New York, Philadelphia and Delaware.

The team offers four different levels of CPR training for interested parties.

Their first is the BLS Healthcare Provider Course which teaches CPR skills for helping victims of all ages. This includes doing ventilation with a barrier device, a bag-mask device and oxygen, use of an automated external defibrillator {AED} and relief of a foreign body airway obstruction. 

This level is intended for participants who provide healthcare to patients in a wide variety of settings, including in hospital and out of hospital. These could include nurses, paramedics, EMT's respiratory therapists, PTs and OT's, physicians, nursing students, police officers and other allied healthcare professionals.

They offer a Heart Saver CPR course which teaches lay rescuers how to recognize and treat life-threatening emergencies, including cardiac arrest and chocking for an adult, child and infant victims. Students will learn to recognize signs of a heart attack and stroke in adults and breathing difficulties in children. 

Mr CPR NJ also offers a course for family and friends in CPR, and a Heart Saver First Aid Course, which teaches rescuers to effectively recognize and treat adults and children in critical emergencies within the first five minutes until emergency medical services arrive to assist.

For more information about the courses or about MRCPRNJ:

Phone: 732-539-0175

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